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#1:
The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a…
#2:
Billy couldn't read Tralfamadorian, of course, but he could at least see how…
#3:
Billy licked his lips, thought a while, inquired at last:
“
Why me?
”
“
…
”
#4:
On the back part of the step, toward the right, I saw a small iridescent…
#5:
…on a train ride home one day. […] I sat, staring out the window at…
#6:
You've got to hand it to fun money, though. Fake money rules. You can get…
#7:
And you know (you've got to know!) that this is going to turn into an…
#8:
In April, the callow lilies came back. They stretched their baby angel…
#9:
Lara's smile reflected across the glass of her monitor. She chose the…
#10:
If Jesus had been killed 20 years ago, Catholic school children would…
#11:
Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world, I feel I can't take it…
#12:
One day ladies will take their computers for walks in the park and tell…
#13:
Why not, also, other trees with immense, splendid flowers, perfuming…
#14:
Why do we call something a
“
number
”
?: Well, perhaps because it has…
#15:
To see a world in a grain of sand, And a heaven in a wild flower…
#16:
O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a King of infinite…
#17:
Glendower:
I can call spirits from the vasty deep.
Hotspur:
Why, so…
#18:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of…
#19:
I touch your mouth, I touch the edge of your mouth with my finger, I am…
#20:
You look at me, from close up you look at me, closer and closer and then we…
#21:
Far away in the heavenly abode of the great god Indra, there is a…
#22:
…good without evil is like up without down, and […] to make an ideal of…
#23:
One fall I gutted a bee tree that a neighbor felled. I took a chain saw…
#24:
I've seen eclipses and I've seen bee swarms. Eclipses are spectacles…
#25:
For many years Mark Thompson, a beekeeper local to my area, had the bizarre…
#26:
A sink brims with water. You pull the plug. The water stirs. A vortex…
#27:
Nature is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and whose…
#28:
Actors are but the jockeys of literature…
#29:
Goes upstairs to see what needs to be done, and a big cartoon hammer of…
#30:
She knows, now, absolutely, hearing the white noise that is London, that…
#31:
She closes her eyes but it has nothing to do with sleep. It only makes…
#32:
Keiko/Judy is simultaneously pubescent and agressively womanly, her shapely…
#33:
…drapes drawing quickly aside to reveal a remarkably…
#34:
If, in some cataclysm, all of scientific knowledge were to be destroyed…
#35:
If a piece of steel or a piece of salt, consisting of atoms one next to…
#36:
…huge power systems—a great water wheel, connected by filaments over…
#37:
The darkness crumbles away— It is the same old druid Time as ever. Only a…
#38:
One cruel backhand sabre-cut—
“
I'm hit! I'm killed!
”
young David cries…
#39:
The old woman was not only ugly with the ugliness age brings us all but…
#40:
A blank, helpless sort of face, rather like a rose just before you…
#41:
She was what we used to call a suicide blonde—dyed by her own hand…
#42:
A cup of coffee—real coffee—home-browned, home-ground, home-made…
#43:
We were taken to a fast-food café where our order was fed into a…
#44:
[
Eve:
]
“
What's the singing of the birds, Adam?
”
[
Adam:
]
“
The birds…
”
#45:
If one could find what ought to be said, when all the words have left the…
#46:
His idea is that whenever you encounter […] any other living thing, man…
#47:
May those who love us love us And for those who don't love us May God…
#48:
…nothing more than a cheap facade, like a garish afghan flung over a…
#49:
When Ronald Reagan was a radio announcer, he used to call baseball…
#50:
It is commonly understood, even by technically unsophisticated computer…
#51:
The others cast themselves down upon the fragrant grass, but Frodo stood…
#52:
The chirping of sparrows could be heard from the window. The sparrows…
#53:
Science is built up of facts, as a house is with stones. But a…
#54:
Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is…
#55:
I've started wearing my nosering again, mostly because despite the image of…
#56:
Summer comes quickly to Lansquenet in the wake of the March winds, and it…
#57:
Altogether, I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound…
#58:
The last three minutes of this film [
Requiem for a Dream
]… like…
#59:
[on
Requiem for a Dream
] It's a modern horror film. We always saw this…
#60:
…this is a system invented by people [programmers] to whom repetitive…
#61:
[on Unix folder abbreviations] Long names get worn down to three-letter…
#62:
Frequently these sorts of files can be found in a directory with the name /…
#63:
excuse me but i just have to explode explode this body off me i'll…
#64:
i'm a fountain of blood in the shape of a girl you're the…
#65:
all is full of love : you just ain't receiving all is full of love : your…
#66:
When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society…
#67:
Holding anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at…
#68:
As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself…
#69:
Upon waking, the dinosaur was still there…
#70:
Monica Swinton, twenty-nine, of graceful shape and lambent eye, went and sat…
#71:
The directors of Synthank were eating an enormous luncheon to celebrate the…
#72:
Henry Darger, […] the antisocial janitor whose tremendous body of artistic…
#73:
…engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces of which I am ignorant and…
#74:
There was no sound of planes. The morning was still; the place was cool and…
#75:
O Love, O fire! once he drew With one long kiss my whole soul thro' My lips…
#76:
A well known scientist (some say it was Bertrand Russell) once gave a public…
#77:
There are some, king Gelon, who think that the number of the sand is infinite…
#78:
How happy is the blameless Vestal's lot! The world forgetting, by the world…
#79:
Anybody can look at a pretty girl and see a pretty girl. An artist can look…
#80:
In Biblical times when people looked up at a clear, blue sky, they saw a…
#81:
“
The nature of our epoch,
”
he [Hofmannsthal] wrote in 1905,
“
is multiplicity…
”
#82:
Paris in 1900 was teeming with talent on every side. There were seventy daily…
#83:
Socrates
: I perceive, Ion; and I will proceed to explain to you what I…
#84:
A
point
is that which has no part…
#85:
A
line
is breadthless length…
#86:
A
circle
is a plane figure contained by one line such that all the straight…
#87:
The all glass faзade of the extension of the Natuurmuseum Rotterdam, situated…
#88:
Naked woman rises either from the sea or from bed; she is called Venus or…
#89:
Лазаревское - бронирование гостиниц, отелей, санаториев, пансионатов в Лазаревско…
#90:
Plato defined man thus:
“
Man is a two-legged animal without feathers;
”
and…
#91:
He [Solon] used to say, too, […] that laws were like cobwebs—for that if…
#92:
Ethics is the aesthetics of behavior…
#93:
In the period of which we speak, there reigned in the cities a stench barely…
#94:
For a moment he was so confused that he actually thought he had never in all…
#95:
The ten thousand men and women, children and patriarchs assembled there felt…
#96:
The result was that the scheduled execution of one of the most abominable…
#97:
With that, everything within him went white before his eyes, while the world…
#98:
They had formed a circle around him, twenty, thirty people, and their…
#99:
Rimgia, whose hair was the color of the central length inside a…
#100:
Be still. I am going to drain you now to the very threshold of death, and…
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